Moderna Inc is engaged in creating transformative medicines based on messenger RNA, or mRNA. It transfers the information stored in the genes to the cellular machinery that makes all the proteins required for life. The firm is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases. Its clinical trials include mRNA-1647, mRNA-1893, mRNA-4157, and mRNA-2416 among others.